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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by tulio_ribeiro on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:06AM (#35598755)
I’m so surprised that a country who still clings to the imperial system would have any clue about UTC, the time standard that the rest of the world uses.

The launch is scheduled to 1300 UTC, for us engineering folks.

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by geuis on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:14AM (#35598817)
Its currently 6:10pm in Beijing. Its also 6:10pm everywhere else in China (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/china).

Because that's a country that doesn't use the imperial system and still insists its the same time as the eastern capital no matter where else in the country people happen to be.

Lets also mention that China is almost the same width as the US, probably larger to be fair.

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by ricardobeat on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:38AM (#35599296)
It probably pays off in efficiency.

I was gonna say it must be weird to see solar noon at 3pm, or live in one of the western provinces and have sunrise at 4:30pm / sunset at 9-10pm for part of the year, but that describes life in the Netherlands too.

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by bombcar on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:31AM (#35598911)
UTC (Zulu) is universally used by airplane people. Most have at least heard of it, even if they don't easily do the math.
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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by Titan2189 on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:13AM (#35599167)
"airplane people" - technical term
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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by pineaux on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @01:20AM (#35610250)
Bit like crab people

Plane people, Plane people, Fly like plane! Lie like people!

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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours by tssva on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:59AM (#35599077)
The US doesn't use the imperial system.
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